Yes to this, foreign dogs are worth more money as pets. Local common breeds are the only ones that get used for meat.

Hmm, if the opportunity passes I’ll check it out … I’m used to people gawking, lol

Thanks :-)

Yeah, the careful curation of everything put me off, over all … I’d rather stick with provincial but real, personally (she says while getting a tattoo in a Vietnamese alley)

I’ve only passed through Shanghai - what’s it like?

London was, in some ways, a hub thanks to the Empire. Less so now, but it does have variety, much more than any other European city IME

You can get stuff like jellyfish salad, jerk chicken, Lebanese food, etc, with little effort.

Also, it’s legal to take durians on the London underground, so that’s one up on Singapore :-P

Yes. People eat dogs shocker.

I dunno, London has that sort of variety … but is also a capitalist hellhole :-/

I’ve had some really good fried chicken in Vietnam, one of the best burgers ever in Singapore, and conversely, terrible Mexican food in Spain, lol

Yes, advice from Lemmy helped me sort out my HRT regimen, and it’s made a huge quality of life improvement for me :-)

There used to be a Chinese takeaway near a place I lived who sold food so cheaply that it was cheaper than cooking at home

Oh my dog, yes. An ex made amazing lasagnas, better than I have ever tasted before or since, and in really large quantities … but it was going to give me a heart attack if I carried on having it twice a week.

We broke up after a couple of years, though, so instead of a heart attack I just had a broken heart instead :')

I left school at 16, which in the UK means I only have the most basic set of exam results. A friend also left with two grade Es only.

We’re both doing well, but it did mean a lot of work. For my friend, he worked full time, plus ran his own business in his “spare time” … it took off enough that he has a decent sustainable income. He has a good sense for business and a cast iron work ethic.

I took a different route, I did short-term “unskilled” work in order to have a tax trail, and made most of my money through other means.

After turning 30 I cleaned up my act, and found that what I’d been doing as hobbies, plus some of my unskilled work, meant I was suitable for a unique job that landed in my lap … and I’ve been doing that ever since, working my way up to a good wage through experience and having a cool head in a crisis.

In short, there’s no “you should do this exact job”, it’s more a case of keep doing something, be willing to be very flexible, treat every job in a professional manner, and just keep learning.

Ok Keanu … I can call you Keanu, yeah? … anyway, Keanu, in this movie we’ll be doing lots of wrestling, so I need you to pin me to the ground. We’ll need plenty of practice, and it needs to be realistic.

Then, in one scene, your character is going spank my character …

Lots of baddies in Asian media seem to be completely two-dimensional. They’re bad because they are bad people, full stop.

They must be stopped before they destroy whatever, for no particular reason. Oh good, the goody came along and defeated them. Woo.

Please don’t ask me to name any of these, I don’t read Korean or Chinese so I can’t remember them.

Yup, after the first three films it’s basically like watching a kid play with action figures.

I still enjoy them, because I’m freaky for fast cars, but that’s about it. Fast X has been sitting on my HDD for years unwatched, lol.

He was a well written character in 2018, too, you just weren’t ready to see it.

Without her, conversation here dried up faster than women around Andrew Tate

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They still do, beautfil utilitarian tractors … none of this SUV shite.

You said it, Ivan!

I guess a lack of class consciousness?

They make me a bit queezy TBH, and some of the books I’ve read put the protagonists in roles where they have loadsa money … and it just works out that it’s lazy writing so they can just make-stuff-happen easily